Social Media

Saturday, 30 October 2010

After a week of posting topical cartoons that no-one knew about I now throw open the blog to anyone who knows me on Facebook and is bored enough to hit the link.

I am still trying out ideas, subjects and techniques. One thing I'm always wary of is by nature cartooning simplifies complex things into simple shapes and stereotypes that have the power to offend or be misunderstood. Take todays cartoon, in order to portray a Native American (deliberately avoiding Indian here) you have to draw a stereotypical Indian with feathers and other racial features in order to make what you have drawn understood.﻿ Add to this that you are publishing on the global World Wide Web where people can respond anonymously and you tread a fine line between trying to be funny and trying not to be misunderstood or tactless.

However, I do draw the line at people who's Facebook gaming activity constantly updates you with ever minor achievement they make. Besides I was always rubbish at Bejewelled Blitz and was always below lots of women I know in the leaderboard

About Me

I have doodled since I was a child. Even though I annotated all my lecture notes with cartoons I have an IT degree and have worked as a programmer for many years. As well as cartooning I enjoy painting, writing, decorating cakes, Photoshop and all sorts of other creative activities. Please email me at andrewfraser73@googlemail.com if you are interested in reproducing any of the material from this site. Keep up to date with new cartoons using the Atom feed or follow me on twitter (cartoonsidrew)